Copyright Law Advocates Clear Everything Up. No Really.

The how-to-save-newspapers-by-changing-copyright-law storm is still swirling around the blogosphere, and now two of the instigators want to clear everything up.

First, a little history: It started with judge Richard Posner’s proposal to give news outlets a monopoly on their scoops by banning others from linking to them. Then Connie Schultz, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (one of us!) proposed something similar, albeit in her version, nobody but the originator of the story can “profit” from the story in the first 24 hours.

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